in reply to Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"
in thread OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"

Waitasecond ... let me go back a few (say 10) years to the time I was starting at the university ... so

  1. where the heck would I buy it? How easy do you think is was to buy a computer related book in english here in Czech Republic? Yeah, I've heard there was some company where you could order a book and they'd order it from abroad and deliver it in a few months, but the price ...
  2. yep the price. Amazon has some used at $100. Cool yeah? Well not much. That was about twice as much as my monthly income at that time. So yeah, even I could have a copy.

Jenda
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Re: Re: Re: OT: Lobbying college library for Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming"
by CountZero (Bishop) on Oct 22, 2003 at 21:05 UTC
    Jenda, I was just kidding.

    Bad example of a lawyer trying to be humorous.

    CountZero

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